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FILE · 008

ASHFORD, K.

Katherine Ashford
ACTIVE
cryptanalyst · CSD · 1949–89 · custodian, 2012–
PHOTO
Brief

Bletchley pedigree. Designed the BRACKEN cipher series. First signatory on the seventy-year-rule petition that became, in 2012, the Federation Records Act. Keeps this archive in her seventy-fourth year of service.

BORN
1922, Cambridge
SERVICE
SVC · 1949-89
CLEARANCE
INDIGO-9 · CUSTODIAN
RECRUITED
1944 · Bletchley · transferred to CSD 1949
LANGUAGES
EnglishGermanFrenchreads Russian

Service History

1944

Bletchley · Hut 8.

1949

Founding cohort, CSD cryptanalysis.

1958

BRACKEN-7 deployed for LD-001.

OPS-001
1989

Stood down with the CSD.

2012

Custodian under the Federation Records Act.